Back in the Azarian Catacombs, Scoti opens with a joke about dying again, and the episode delivers. The death counter starts at Basket 45, Scoti 32 and ends at Basket 45, Scoti 33. In between it's spawner after spawner.
Straight ahead, for once
Instead of circling back around to the towers, they go straight. "At least this will be new, right?" There's a zombie in the vines, a lot of spiders, and then a tower to climb. At the top they open a chest without even checking it for traps, and it turns out they've been here before. "We won! We did it! We can go home now!"
A courtyard that keeps spawning
Down a ladder toward some iron, it falls apart fast. A sword breaks. Two zombies, a zombie spawner, then another spawner, and the first one "just activated again," so there must be more hidden in the dark. Then a spider spawner, a skeleton they call "the bow guy," and a creeper that shows up from nowhere. "I'm actually gonna die, I think." Nobody does.
One of them spots a skeleton spawner floating in the air right above where they'd been standing. Death holes cover the ground up top. There's plenty of iron around too, which leads to a fair question: "Why aren't we wearing iron armor?" The answer is that the chain and gold are "super cool."
Into the catacombs proper
A tower door with spawners stacked over it leads underground. Something that looks like glass raises their hopes for a second, but "it's not the fleecy boxes. No, it's not lit up." The first chest down there holds four axes and an Anti-Projectile Hauberk, Projectile Protection IV and Unbreaking II. The axes, someone says, don't bode well. The other chest is full of wood.
"So this is the catacombs." There's glass set behind a wall, an iron ingot down a tunnel, and silverfish blocks again.
The library and the gem
Another library, with spawners on both sides and what sounds like 20 creepers. Up a ladder they find experience bottles, a Hazard Helm with Blast Protection II and Fire Protection II, and an item called the Azarian Trading Gem. Its tooltip says Unbreaking X and "Legitimate Azarian Currency." Nobody says a word about it. Whoever takes the helm announces, "I look like a football player."
Then they argue over whether the thing in the hallway is a creeper spawner or a skeleton spawner. "Why would you question me?"
Beds, anvils and a Smite III sword
The next rooms are friendlier. One has beds and a chest of food with a Potion of Swiftness in it. Another has furnaces with four iron in one of them, and anvils. A chest up top holds arrows and a Stone Sword with Smite III, which one of them takes. Another chest turns out to be full of coal. They also notice a spider cave and realize they "didn't bring antidote."
Cave spiders
Past that the halls fill up with cobwebs, which means poisonous spiders. The Smite III sword gets its first real use. Then at about 21:26 the chat reads "Scoti_Garbidis was slain by Cave Spider," and the counter goes to 33. The hearts on Basket's screen are still poison green as they fall back. "I'm thinking that's the end of the episode, man."
